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well spotted.
I guess you'd have to shoot up a rocket. How much payload is left now?
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And if you read the article instead of just Kent's headline, you'd've seen: "Graf’s Kickstarter campaign is intended to fund a six shot test to ensure the cannon is functioning properly. The funds will also allow him to create a motorized rocket within the cannon’s bullet to push those objects into orbit once in space"
The size of a rocket needed to shift something from an earth intercepting parabola (or a one way deep space trajectory) into a stable orbit would be much smaller than that needed to reach orbit first. If I'm bored I might play with numbers later today after work.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera. "Even the white bits were black"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera.
I have enough trouble finding my phone when it's solid. The last thing I want to do is try to find my transparent phone!
Marc
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The next step is fully virtual - the phone itself is in the cloud. Bliss.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Unless they have made a serious breakthrough in physics, it will have a really crappy battery time.
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Quote: January 30, 2013 1:00 PM
...may be available by the end of 2013.
Aren't we a little bit late with this one?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You know how it is when the new year hits: you're still writing the previous year on cheques? Totally works the same with news items.
TTFN - Kent
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What, 40 days not long enough for you to get used to the change of year?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Has it been that long already? Damn, I should do something with that Christmas tree.
TTFN - Kent
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When critics described Windows 8.1 as a step backwards, I disagreed: Responding to customer complaints is never wrong, I argued, and the new version of the OS made it more acceptable on the many different types of PCs and devices on which Windows now runs. With Update 1, however, I'm beginning to question the validity of this new direction, and am now wondering whether Microsoft has simply fallen into an all-too-familiar trap of trying to please everyone, and creating a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone. "It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps. The king is gone, but he's not forgotten"
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Hey hey my my,
Rock and Roll will never die.
but windows might?
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No, Microsoft started with a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone, then tried to convince us that it would please everyone.
This is how marketing works, you know.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: This is how marketing works, you know.
And this is the company that has never been all that good at marketing.
TTFN - Kent
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Canning Windows Phone and using Android would be a huge mistake. Just posting this to remind myself to work "unforkable" into conversations this week
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Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very core, remains open to all. "But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out"
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HP server customers are about to get an unwelcome surprise when they need to update firmware or apply a service pack. Effective later this month, those downloads, which often fix critical bugs, will require either a current warranty or an extended support agreement. Did this idea come from Dell's sales department?
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Until a lawsuit for delivering faulty firmware and not fixing it for free comes flyin' in.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Read the fine print.
Computers are sold "as is" with no warranty for "fitness to purpose" or some such words.
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Quote: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is getting a huge raise as she enters the third year of her attempt to turn around the slumping personal computer and printer maker.
Whitman's annual salary is soaring to $1.5 million from the $1 that she settled for during her first two years on the job, according a regulatory documents filed Tuesday. The raise approved last week is retroactive to Nov. 1, the beginning of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal year.
HP said the bigger paycheck will make Whiteman's salary comparable to what CEOs of similar-sized companies make. HP earned $5 billion on revenue of $112 billion during its last fiscal year
Somebodies got to throw more into the pot!
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According to Netcraft, which surveys publicly-accessible web servers, millions of websites still appear to be using vulnerable versions of Apache, including versions which are no longer supported. If only there was some kind of service they could run to update their web server at times
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Jeremy Ashkenas has released version 1.7 of CoffeeScript, and with it introduced some highly anticipated changes to the popular JavaScript transpiler. Now with added creamer!
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About a year ago we thought it would be a good idea to do a talk on "What not to do in ASP.NET?" - basically an anti-patterns talks. We kept seeing folks falling into the same traps and wanted to be prescriptive as there's aspects to ASP.NET that are 10 years old and don't apply to today's internet, but there are also new aspects to ASP.NET that are only a year old, and perhaps haven't soaked into the zeitgeist quite yet. Assuming ASP.NET is on your to-do list
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Do NOT write web applications...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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